(OPINION!) LED Replacement Headlamp Bulbs
No instruments...merely stare and compare.
- Where I drive there are no goose-stepping over-regulatory restrictions about bulb replacements
- I have as of this morning ordered and replaced 13 sets of 90xx series incandescent bulbs
- Six different manufacturers
- All LED bulb headlamp bulbs use internal mechanical fans to aid cooling - a potential failure or weak point - the headlamp housing is the focusing agent so errant stray light beams are non existent
- Some vehicles have 2 bulbs each housing so a bulb is used for high beam
- In the focus area the light intensity is immeasurably greater as compared to factory incandescent bulbs. Impossible to state in a coherent fashion but I imagine lit areas to illuminate 500% better
- Every person who has driven vehicles with factory HID lamps are emphatic - white light is far superior to bluish HID lighting
- In the hundreds of oncoming vehicles that have passed by, not one has flashed their headlamps when I am on low beam
- With standard incandescent lamps on high beam close to 90% of oncoming cars flashed me down
- IF and I mean this is a BIG IF, the manufacturer used a sealed ball bearing fan inside the LED lamp, the lamp should operate for many thousands of hours
- Think of the longevity of a laptop's fan
- This may provoke arguments
- Go ahead and argue while I do not run off the edge of an unstriped road shoulder
